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30.Dd December 8, 1999
31.Dt EXAMPLE 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm example
35.Nd "example command manual page"
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl abc
39.Op Fl d Ar argument
40.Ar file
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42This is an example manual page for the
43.Nm
44command.
45It is intended that this example can be used as a template
46when writing a new manual page.
47.Pp
48The options are as follows:
49.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d Ar argument"
50.It Fl a
51Example optional
52.Fl a
53option.
54.It Fl b
55Example optional
56.Fl b
57option.
58.It Fl c
59Example optional
60.Fl c
61option.
62.It Fl d Ar argument
63Example optional
64.Fl d
65option with required argument
66.Ar argument .
67.It Ar file
68Required argument
69.Ar file .
70.El
71.Sh ENVIRONMENT
72The
73.Nm
74command ignores the
75.Ev EXAMPLE
76environment variable.
77.Sh FILES
78.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/null" -compact
79.It Pa /dev/null
80Example of a file in the
81.Sx FILES
82section.
83.El
84.Sh EXAMPLES
85The following is an example of a typical usage
86of the
87.Nm
88command:
89.Pp
90.Dl "example -abc -d xyzzy /dev/null"
91.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
92Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
93fails for one of the following reasons:
94.Bl -diag
95.It "example error message"
96An example of an error message.
97.It "another example error message."
98Self explanatory.
99.El
100.Sh COMPATIBILITY
101The
102.Nm
103command has no known compatibility issues.
104.Sh SEE ALSO
105.Xr example 3 ,
106.Xr example 4 ,
107.Xr mdoc 7
108.Rs
109.%A "A. B. Author"
110.%T "Example RFC Title"
111.%O RFC0000
112.Re
113.Rs
114.%A "A. B. Author"
115.%B "Example Book Title"
116.%O ISBN-0-000-00000-0
117.Re
118.Rs
119.%A "A. B. Author"
120.%D "January 1997"
121.%J "Example Journal Name"
122.%T "Example Article Title"
123.Re
124.Sh STANDARDS
125If the command conforms to some standard, such as
126.St -p1003.2
127or
128.St -isoC ,
129it should be noted here.
130.Sh HISTORY
131The
132.Nm
133manual page example first appeared in
134.Fx 2.2 .
135.Pp
136Some other common
137.Sx HISTORY
138section examples are:
139.Pp
140The
141.Nm
142manual page example first appeared in
143.Bx 4.4 .
144.Pp
145The
146.Nm
147manual page example first appeared in
148.At v6 .
149.Sh AUTHORS
150This
151manual page was written by
152.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
153.Sh BUGS
154The actual code for this command is vaporware.
155